{"id":1392772,"date":"2022-03-21T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392772"},"modified":"2022-03-21T19:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:44:46","slug":"russell-brand-mainstream-media-government-big-business-operating-in-unison-to-benefit-themselves-and-disadvantage-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russell-brand-mainstream-media-government-big-business-operating-in-unison-to-benefit-themselves-and-disadvantage-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand: Mainstream Media, Government, Big Business Operating in Unison to Benefit Themselves and Disadvantage You"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussell-brand-mainstream-media-government-big-business-operating-in-unison-to-benefit-themselves-and-disadvantage-you-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">English actor-comedian Russell Brand slammed the mainstream media\u00a0in Britain \u2014 which have attempted to turn him into their very own Joe Rogan-style figure of controversy \u2014 proclaiming, \u201cWe\u2019ve been accused of being anti-vax, simply for saying unvaccinated people might have rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe establishment and the mainstream media are coming for me and coming for this channel, saying I\u2019m a conspiracy theorist, a right-wing nut, and an anti-vaxxer,\u201d Brand said in a recent video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t think that I\u2019m those things, and I don\u2019t think that I\u2019m those things, could there be any other reason why the mainstream media and establishment want to shut down open discourse and dissent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brand addressed the establishment press calling him \u201cthe new Joe Rogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0two major British newspapers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/19\/mainstream-media-labels-comedian-russel-brand-as-the-joe-rogan-conspiracy-theorist-of-britain\/\">likened<\/a> <em>Forgetting Sarah Marshall<\/em> star and comedian turned YouTube commentator to American comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan, who became a fixation of the establishment media for his refusal to follow the party-line on various issues.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, Brand finds himself under attack for similar reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial articles have been provoked by video we did about Justin Trudeau, saying that his invocation of the emergency act and refusal to rescind it entirely in case of certain financial components against peaceful trucker protests smacks of the kind of authoritarianism that might diminish his right to overtly condemn anti-democratic actions elsewhere. That\u2019s what we said,\u201d Brand said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been accused of being anti-vax, simply for saying unvaccinated people might have rights,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said is that perhaps people that are reluctant to become vaccinated shouldn\u2019t be treated as criminals, condemned, and treated as social pariahs,\u201d Brand clarified.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian went on to declare, \u201cThe\u00a0mainstream media is not your friend. The culture is not your friend. The government is not your friend. Big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately, in unison, to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them, and disadvantage you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russell Brand goes scorched earth, I love to see it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n8H63i4pgG\">pic.twitter.com\/n8H63i4pgG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udf3b (@GingerrPilled) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GingerrPilled\/status\/1505194968427638790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To Brand\u2019s point, corporate media, mega corporations, and big tech conglomerates have all been on the receiving in of an avalanche of criticism in recent weeks over scandals that involved them defending Democrats or a liberal agenda.<br \/>The elite press suffered the ultimate fake news humiliation last week, with the co-founder of NewsGuard the establishment \u201cnews-rating\u201d project \u2014 that presents itself as a source of expert knowledge on which news sources can be trusted and which ones cannot \u2014 finding itself in an awkward situation after initially labeling the Hunter Biden laptop story a Russian \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20267480\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/nyt-hunter-joe-biden-getty-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20267480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/nyt-hunter-joe-biden-getty-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The New York Times finally acknowledged, after two years, that Hunter\u2019s \u201claptop from hell\u201d is real. Mario Tama, Jim Watson\/Getty Images, BNN Edit<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe point of this channel is to have an open conversation and much of what we do is about critiquing news,\u201d Brand explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at news, and analyzing news,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re doing, just to be clear. We\u2019re not claiming to be a news channel. So the idea of \u2018misinformation,\u2019 this is opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English actor-comedian Russell Brand slammed the mainstream media\u00a0in Britain \u2014 which have attempted to turn him into their very own Joe Rogan-style figure of controversy \u2014 proclaiming, \u201cWe\u2019ve been accused<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}